The European Super League proposal has now been relaunched under a different banner – The Unity League – as clubs attempt to challenge the primacy of the UEFA Champions League – but how will it impact Spurs?
Tottenham and the other members of the ‘Big Six’ signed up for the controversial European Super League in the summer of 2021. All six were eventually forced to withdraw from the proposed competition following a spate of fan protests.
Since then, there have been efforts made to revive the idea but Spurs and the other Premier League clubs have rejected those proposals, pledging their commitment to the existing competitions.
It has now emerged that the ESL idea has been resuscitated again, this time under a new brand and a new format.
The Telegraph have now revealed that the ESL is now back and has been re-branded as the ‘Unity League’ in a move that could send shockwaves through European football once again.
Unlike the initial ESL proposal, the newly proposed competition does not include the idea of automatic qualification for any clubs, with teams instead having to qualify annually for the competition.
The competition would be streamed through a branded ‘Unified’ app, with a similar model to Netflix, with subscribers either able to watch it for free with a lot of advertising content or pay a subscription fee that would eliminate advertising.
The proposal is for 96 clubs to compete, with the champions set to come from the top two tiers, the Star League and the Gold League, which would each feature 16 teams that would be divided into two groups of eight.
Those eight teams will play each other home and away, with the top two clubs from each of the four groups progressing to the final eight.
The Telegraph explain that the company which proposed this new tournament, A22, will now ask UEFA for permission to operate the competition.
A22 reportedly believe that European football’s governing body is obliged to give permission as per the ruling of the European courts on the matter a year ago.
However, the current proposal only has the explicit support of Real Madrid and Barcelona, with the Premier League clubs yet to throw in their lot with this idea.
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